Species distribution modelling for conservation planning in Victoria, Australia

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 249, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-74

  Liu, Canran ^a   White, Matt ^a   Newell, Graeme ^a   Griffioen, Peter ^b  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b Peter Griffioen Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Prediction; Presence only; Random forest; Species distribution modelling; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; PRESENCE-ONLY; RANDOM FORESTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELLING; THRESHOLD;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GIS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872138736     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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